[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Ben McIlwain]

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Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:47:44PM -0800, Robert Rohde wrote:
>> You may want to review Yoni's previous deletion request:
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Inappropriate_cartoons
>>
>> Commons overwhelmingly supported keeping these and similar items even though
>> they are intended to be offensive.
> 
> Thanks. I had not seen it and it is indeed interesting. However, it does
> not address the point I made. I have no question about keeping imgaes if
> they are used on any Wikimedia Project. I just see no reason to keep
> offensive images if they are not used. I still do not know whether the
> images in question are used anywhere.

It's important to make the distinction between things that are not being
used at the moment and things that will never be useful.  I don't think
these images fall into the latter category (in the way that, say,
scheisse porn might).

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Ben "Cyde Weys" McIlwain    ( http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/ )
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